Episodios

  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jun 18 2023
    A US Supreme Court ruling throws American wetlands under the bus. In the oven, wheat and corn flour turn into bread and tortillas; spread on farm fields, rock flour reacts with carbon dioxide, turning into carbonates that get stored – forever. And, sharp questions off his tongue and a smartphone in hand, a Canadian activist ambushes politicians.
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    59 m
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jun 25 2023
    Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish -- Is it really that expensive kind? Pull out your DNA barcode reader, and find out! And, sex and the brain; women’s and men’s are wired differently; men’s brains are sexualized before they’re born.
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    59 m
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 2 2023
    Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and the bottom sediments of bays and lakes -- including a small lake in southern Ontario. But human beings have no control. And now we stand at catastrophe’s door.
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    1 h
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 9 2023
    Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one of humanity’s great revolutions – the 1950s Great Acceleration has transformed Earth’s surface completely, hurtling our planet into an uncertain future.
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    59 m
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 17 2023
    After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best observed in the rock record. A Canadian geologist relishes the moment. And, a First Nations elder reflects on the lake of her dreams and memories.
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    58 m
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 23 2023
    Artificial Intelligence: existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. And, Forever Chemicals in the blood of pregnant mums and their babies.
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    59 m
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 30 2023
    Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th anniversary. And, armed drones. Canada wants to buy some.
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    59 m
  • Little Boy and Fat Man

    Little Boy and Fat Man
    Aug 4 2023
    Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific Island nation that paid the other ultimate price, turning America into a nuclear-armed superpower.
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